[ SHOWGSD-L ] Brain surgery

From: "GrnRam415@xxxxxxx" <grnram415@xxxxxxx>
To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 18:14:04 -0400 (EDT)
Excellent point!  My Brandy loves everyone.  She's never met a threat and I am 
training her for therapy work.  She knows people at dog functions all have food 
in their pockets and will give her pets.  And, yes, she has kissed judges.  For 
those reasons, I thought she would fail her TC at the weird stranger.  She did 
not fail.  She went to the end of that lead and watched and evaluated.  I gave 
her as much lead as she wanted until she hit the mark she wasn't supposed to 
cross.  She didn't bark or growl or have hackles up.  But, she kept that 
tension and watched that guy until we were done.  Brandy is very in tune with 
me and I am sure that had MY reaction been fearful or a real bad guy had 
crossed "that line", she would've ripped that lead out of my hand and gone 
after the guy.  
 
Discernment is something hard to find in a show ring.  Fearful dogs can be 
trained to tolerate ring procedures.  Hard/aggressive dogs can be controlled to 
withstand exams.  Personally, I find the TT useless in really evaluating a 
dog's temperament.  Too bad we can't find a way to judge dogs outside the ring 
and see how they really act.  
Laura Thomas 



-----Original Message-----
From: James Barnhart <jim_barnhart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ELG440 <ELG440@xxxxxxx>
Cc: showgsd-l <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, May 7, 2011 2:12 pm
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: It is not brain surgery


While this the ideal temperament according to the standard I believe  
rom experience that we need to have a broader perspective.   I have  
ound that most important aspect of GSD temperament is a unique  
bility of intelligent discernment as to the situation the dog faces.   
 have had dogs that are friendly to a stranger because they know the  
erson to be of no harm to themselves or their owner and have learned  
o like people.  I have seen that same dog sensing possible danger  
hange into an animal ready to give it's life for you if need be.    
enalizing a well socialized dog for being friendly on the loose lead  
emperament test when perhaps it has gone through this procedure a  
umber of times is wrong.  Jim
n May 5, 2011, at 8:34 AM, ELG440@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Our breed, the German shepherd is to be aloof.  If the dog loves  
 the  judge
 and jumps up to give a kiss, in reality that is a temperament problem



Laura Thomas

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